The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 73
“Are you ill?” she asked wonderingly, surprised at not finding him dressed.
Who acts: you, arrow, fool · What happens: be, ask, surprise, not find, dress · To what, where: fool · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, arrow, fool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ill | nsubj |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 8 asked | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 surprised | punct |
| 11 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 asked | conj |
| 12 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 14 finding | mark |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 finding | advmod |
| 14 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 surprised | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finding | obj |
| 16 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 finding | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | arrow | wonderingly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | surprise | participle | arrow not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | not find | gerund | arrow not said here | fool | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dress | participle | fool not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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